Page 4 - Dimitris Tosidis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

news A journey with Greece s last nomadic shepherds dw.com 02/03/2021 Dimitris Tosidis The sustainable farming practice of herding sheep hundreds of kilometers dates back millennia. We meet the people keeping the tradition alive despite pressure from industrialized agriculture, tourism and climate change. © Dimitris Tosidis After decades of summers camping on Greece s Mount Smolikas, Eleni Tzima said 2020 would be their last For the past 53 years Eleni Tzima and her husband Nasos Tzimas have herded their livestock some 150 kilometers (241 miles) between summer pastures in northwest Greece s isolated highlands down to their winter home in the lowlands. The Tzimas family is part of a millennia-old tradition of transhumance, or the seasonal movement of animals between fixed grazing grounds. But it s a dying one: they are some of the last still practicing this way of farming in the country.

Perifereia dytikis makedoniasDimitris tosidis vasilis tzimasDimitris tosidis giannis saitisGiorgios anthoulisEleni tzimaVasilis tzimasDimitris tosidis elini tzimaMount smolikasDimitris tosidis giorgos anthoulisDimitris tosidisThomas ziagkasElini tzimaNasos tzimasGiannis saitisDimitris tosidis thomas ziagkasGiorgos anthoulis